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Heart disease in women being under-treated

...ings could have many reasons including a lingering myth that heart disease is primarily a man's disease, doctors not using effective prevention methods and also the fear of side effects of preventive drugs in both doctors and patients. In the study of the 2,763 women, all had suffered heart attacks or ch...

Do you love nuts? Then here's some good news for you!

The myth that eating nuts makes one fat has now been broken by a study that suggests that mono and polyunsaturated fats are good while simple carbohydrates are bad. Nuts contain monounsaturated fat that helps lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, the goo...

Acupuncture in Paediatric care

...method to additional medications. The one popular myth that prevents the use of this method in children is that children are sensitive to needles and are not prepared to take such treatments. On the contrary, children with chronic pain or nausea are ready to try it in place of other medications....

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...Doctors caution that the danger in creating such a myth is that it is likely to encourage doctors to prescribe drugs to change sexual function when attention should be paid to other aspects of a woman's life such as stress, tiredness or threatening behaviour from their partners. However, a spokeswoman ...

Stretching the muscles doesn't make them more resilient

...its and others.If the benefits of stretching are a myth along with having cold showers and abstaining from sex before a game is there anything people can do to improve their performance and reduce the after effects of sport. Todman recommends a gentle jog before strenuous exercise. This “may prevent inju...

Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives

...f the authors of the study."This study dispels the myth that good pain control at the end of life means killing the patient. People should not fear that taking morphine for pain need shorten life, and any doctor with such a worry about one of their patients should seek specialist palliative care advice," ...

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